I own a mexican strat. When i have played on the neck pickup for about an hour or so, it suddenly dies!No sound at all!! But the other pickups works. Then, if a disconnect the guitar and leave it for some hours, the soundis back again.... It has happen three times in a row now. I've been playing guitar for about 35 years, and I neverexperienced anything similar. Totally weird... I guess it has something to do with magnetism, but I can't figure out why?

It could be a defective contact. Maybe one cable is not soldered on anymore. I have similar problem with my guitar and bridge pickup. My volume knob has a defective contact too. if its full turned up sometimes i have no sound at all from the pick up. Then i have to turning the knob a little and then it works again. Maybe something like that happend at your guitar too.

Thanx guy's, but it's not a contact issue, therefore I said it was spooky. I'm pretty good at electronics and had the problems You're referring to a lot of times with other guitars. I've pulled and pushed the cables with no difference, turned the knobs, messing with the switch - no matter what, the pickup is dead - but only after one hours playing.... If a leave the guitar for a while and then come back to play, then the pickup works.... Whats really strange here, is that if I switch cable, it works partially for some minutes and then dies again.... My own theory about this is: a) A bad capacitor The wiring in the pickup itself, e.g when it gets magnetized by the strings, the magnetic field is reversed and therefore cannot output any sound.

The latter am I not sure about since I'm not good at magnetism, but a bad wiring in the pickup might be the problem anyhow....